1. science
2. physics

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´
Septima
Escuela de F´ısica-Matematicas
25 Mayo – 29 Mayo 2015
Topological
Quantum Matter
From Theory to
Applications
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Departamento de Matematicas
– Departamento de F´ısica
Universidad de los Andes
Queremos agradecer a los Departamentos de Matem´aticas y de F´ısica, a la
Facultad de Ciencias, a la Vicerector´ıa de Investigacones de la Universidad
de Los Andes y a ICETEX por su soporte financiero a esta escuela.
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Morning lectures
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Andrei Bernevig. Topological Superconductors and Category
Theory
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Allan Macdonald. Quantum Hall effects through the ages
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Jiannis Pachos. Why should anyone care about anyons?
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Short communications
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Aiyalam Balachandran. Edge States, topological insulators and
superconductors
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C´
esar Galindo. Classification of Modular Categories
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Arturo G´
omez. Regiones de confinamiento y deconfinamiento
a partir de propagadores no perturbativos en modelos 3dimensionales
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Servio P´
erez Merchancano. Quantum physics and transport
process in 2D nanostructures by means of special functions 8
Andr´
es Reyes. The Geometry of Quantum Phase Transitions:
From Berry Phases to Fredholm Modules
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Inti Sodemann. Applications of conformal field theory to the
fractional quantum Hall states
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Posters
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Juli´
an Arcila Forero. Phase transition of anyons confined in
one-dimensional optical lattice
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´
Oscar
Casas. Topological Insulators in Nanowires
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12
Miguel Jorge Bernabe Ferreira. Further Explorations of the
Parameter Space of 3D Lattice Gauge Theories
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Mario Henao. Faraday rotation in thin metal films bounded by
topological insulators
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Paul Mar´ın. Simulation of universal logic quantum gates by
using a toric code model
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´
Oscar
Mart´ınez Castro. Density of states of a graphene layer
under circularly polarized ac field
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Carlos Mera Acosta. Dirac Fermions without bulk backscattering in rhombohedral topological insulators
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Nicol´
as Morales Dur´
an, Andr´
es Vargas . A Bohmian approach
to the non-Markovian non-linear
Schr¨
odinger-Langevin equation
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Manuel Mu˜
noz. Edge modes in the single-band Bose-Hubbard
model.
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Mariela Nieto. Effective Model for Graphene
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Jos´
e Luis Ribero. Ramsey interferometer and measurements
of quantum topological phases
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Karen Valencia. Medidas de impedancia del Dy2 F e17−x Gax cerca
de la transici´
on de fase Ferromagn´
etica-Paramagn´
etica
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Schedule
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Morning Lectures
Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University, USA)
Topological Superconductors and Category Theory
• Topological Superconductivity, Kitaev wire, p+ip superconductor in
2D and relation to projector Chern numbers, Majorana fermions.
• Different kinds of chiral superconductors - the 16 fold way.
• Modular tensor categories, braiding,and topological quantum field theory.
Allan Macdonald (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Quantum Hall effects through the ages
• Chern Indices and the Quantum Hall Effect (covers Thouless’s original
paper).
• Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (covers incompressible states, fractional and non-Abelian excitations).
• Quantum Hall Effect in a Periodic Potential (covers Hofstadter butterfly, Chern insulators, QHE for graphene on h-BN).
• Landau Levels and Superconductivity (covers Hall quantization in the
presence of a pair-potential and proximity-coupled superconductivity
in graphene sheets with well formed Landau levels).
Jiannis Pachos (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Why should anyone care about anyons?
• General overview of anyons and topological systems.
• The toric code and quantum error correction (maybe finite temperature effects).
• Anyons, Jones polynomials and quantum algorithms.
• Topological entanglement entropy.
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Short Communications
Aiyalam Balachandran
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
Edge States, topological insulators and superconductors
On manifolds M with boundaries ∂M , the formulation of quantum field
theories for tensor fields requires boundary conditions on the Laplacian ∆
such as Dirichlet, Neumann or Robin boundary conditions. They can lead
to edge states with a gapped bulk. Examples are quantum Hall effect and
the interface ∂M of a superconducting M and a normal metal. We discuss
this phenomenon in general terms, give examples and suggest that they are
very common.
Such edge states occur for Dirac fields too, but the boundary conditions are
those of Atiyah, Pataudi and Singer (APS). The APS approach is explained
and shown to lead to edge states by examples. Perhaps these edge states are
related to “topological” edge states. They can conserve P and T and lead
to spin-momentum locking.
C´
esar Galindo
´ ticas
Departamento de Matema
´ , Colombia
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota
Classification of Modular Categories
Modular categories are intricate organizing algebraic structures appearing
in a variety of mathematical subjects including topological quantum field
theory, conformal field theory, representation theory of quantum groups,
von Neumann algebras, and vertex operator algebras.
Besides the mathematical interest, a motivation for a classification of modular categories comes from their application in condensed matter physics
and quantum computing. Unitary modular categories are algebraic models of anyons in two dimensional topological phases of matter where simple
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objects model anyons. In topological quantum computation, anyons give
rise to quantum computational models. Modular categories have also been
used recently to construct three dimensional topological insulators and superconductors. Therefore, a classification of modular categories is literally
a classification of certain topological phases of matter.
In this talk we will present the classification of all modular categories of
dimension 4m, where m is an odd square-free integer. We will use this result to give the classification of rank 6 and rank 7 weakly integral modular
categories. This completes the classification of weakly integral modular categories through rank 7. This talk is based on a joint work with P. Bruillard,
S-H. Ng, J. Plavnik, E. Rowell and Z. Wang (Prepint: arXiv:1411.2313).
Arturo G´
omez
Departamento de Ciencias
Facultad de Artes Liberales y Facultad de Ingenier´ıa y Ciencias
˜ ez, Vin
˜ a del Mar, Chile.
Universidad Adolfo Iban
Regiones de confinamiento y deconfinamiento a partir de propagadores no perturbativos en modelos 3-dimensionales
Primeramente haremos una breve revisi´on acerca de las teor´ıas de YangMills y su cuantizaci´
on a trav´es de la integral de camino. Posteriormente,
abordaremos el problema de Gribov, donde se estudia en profundidad la
cuesti´
on de la fijaci´
on del calibre de la teor´ıa, generalizando la propuesta
de Faddeev-Popov. A partir de este an´alisis es posible obtener modificaciones en la estructura anal´ıtica de los propagadores del glu´on y del ghost
en la regi´
on de infrarroja de la teor´ıa, dando lugar a un escenario adecuado
para el estudio del confinamiento del glu´on. Tomando este escenario para el
estudio no-perturbativo de las teor´ıas de Yang-Mills, estudiaremos dos modelos en 3 dimensiones de gran inter´es f´ısico, a saber, el conocido modelo de
Georgi-Glashow (que introduce un campo de Higgs en la representaci´on adjunta) y la llamada teor´ıa de gauge topologicamente masiva, que introduce
un t´ermino de Chern-Simons en la acci´on.
En ambos casos, a trav´es del an´alisis de los propagadores no-perturbativos
del campo de calibre es posible determinar en el espacio de los par´ametros
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de la teor´ıa, regiones de existencia de polos f´ısicos masivos para el glu´on,
correspondiendo a la fase masiva observable y regiones donde no es posible
identificar glu´
ones como estados f´ısicos pertenecientes a la Matriz S, dando
lugar a la fase confinante.
Servio P´
erez Merchancano
Departamento de F´ısica, Grupo SENUMA
´ n, Colombia
Universidad del Cauca, Popaya
Quantum physics and transport process in 2D nanostructures
by means of special functions
In this paper we analyze quantum transport in a two-dimensional nanostructure where we consider the spin polarization, a physical effect which
now has a high performance potential in research and fabricating of basic
nano-spintronics devices for implementation and quantum computing operation [1]. We present a physical-mathematical analysis of effects of Dres∂2
selhaus HD = βD (b
σx kx − σy ky ) ∂z
σx ky −
2 and in-plane Rashba HR = αR (b
∂2
σy kx ) ∂z 2 spin-orbit interactions, where βD and αR are constants depending
on the material, σ
bx and σ
by are Pauli matrices, kx and ky indicate the wave
vectors in the crystallographic direction [100] and [101]. The effects spinorbit coupling Schr¨
odinger-Pauli equation given by the Hamiltonian end
effects spin-orbit coupling Schr¨odinger-Pauli equation given by the Hamiltonian
2
T
b = ~ (k 2 + k 2 )b
bD + H
bR + H
bZ
H
σxT + H
k σx + VL,R (z)b
2m∗j z
[3, 5, 4] with a type potential energy barrier, shaped with a hyperbolic func0
tion, known as P¨
oschl-Teller, VL,R (z) = V0 cosh−2 z−z
aL,R where aL,R refers
to the width of the barriers [8]. Furthermore considering the Zeeman en~
b z = 1 g ∗ µj σ
ergy H
2 j B b · B with the influence of in-plane magnetic field on spin
polarization [7, 9]. The study is conducted analytically by confluent hypergeometric functions [6, 2], allowing the resonant tunneling spin model for
semiconductor heterostructures multilayer type. The results show spin polarization depending on the energy applied to the electrons, the well width
and intensity of the magnetic field.
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Keywords. Polarisation, Dresselhaus, Rashba, P¨oschl-Teller.
References
[1]
P. S. Alekseev, M. M. Glazov, and S. A. Tarasenko. “Spin injection via
(110)-grown semiconductor barriers”. In: Phys. Rev. B 89 (15 Apr.
2014), p. 155306. url: http : / / link . aps . org / doi / 10 . 1103 /
PhysRevB.89.155306.
[2]
R. Beals and R. Wong. Special Functions: A Graduate Text. Cambridge
Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
url: https://books.google.com.co/books?id=w87QUuTVIXYC.
[3]
J.-D. Lu and J.-W. Li. “The effects of Dresselhaus and Rashba spinorbit interactions on the electron tunneling in a non-magnetic heterostructure”. In: Applied Surface Science 256.12 (2010), pp. 4027–
4030. url: http : / / www . sciencedirect . com / science / article /
pii/S0169433210001078.
[4]
J.-D. Lu and Y.-B. Li. “Effect of in-plane magnetic field on spin polarization in the presence of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit effect”. In: Superlattices and Microstructures 48.6 (2010), pp. 517–522. url: http://www.
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074960361000193X.
[5]
J.-D. Lu, X.-P. Xia, L. Yi, and Y.-H. Wang. “Spin-dependent resonant
tunneling in a periodic non-magnetic heterostructure with spin-orbit effects”. In: Physics Letters A 374.33 (2010), pp. 3341–3345. url: http:
//www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960110007048.
[6]
A.F. Nikiforov and V.B. Uvarov. Special Functions of Mathematical
Physics: A Unified Introduction with Applications. Springer Verlag, 2013.
[7]
M. Reza and K. Mahani. “Influence of in-plane magnetic field on spin
polarization in the presence of the oft-neglected k3-Dresselhaus spinorbit coupling”. In: Physics Letters A 372.38 (2008), pp. 6022–6025.
url: http : / / www . sciencedirect . com / science / article / pii /
S0375960108011675.
[8]
A. Rodr´ıguez and J. M. Cerver´o. “One-dimensional disordered wires
with P¨
oschl-Teller potentials”. In: Phys. Rev. B 74 (10 Sept. 2006),
p. 104201. url: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.
104201.
[9]
Q. Yan, J. Chen, H. Pan, and H. Xu. “Resonant tunneling in doublebarrier structures under transverse magnetic field”. In: Physica B: Con-
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densed Matter 406.23 (2011), pp. 4361–4365. url: http://www.sciencedirect.
com/science/article/pii/S0921452611008349.
Andr´
es Reyes
Departamento de F´ısica
´ , Colombia
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota
The Geometry of Quantum Phase Transitions: From Berry
Phases to Fredholm Modules
In the last few years, a characterization of the critical point in several spin
chain modules in terms of Berry phases and also in terms of the so-called
quantum geometric tensor has been extensively studied. This characterization complements the conformal field theory description of the critical point,
as well as those based on entanglement properties of the ground state. In
this talk I will present an approach based on the study of certain topological
invariants that arise naturally from the topology of the parameter space of
a modified XY -mode. This, in turn, leads to more general considerations
in the context of quasi-free representations of CAR-algebras, for which a
connection to noncommutative geometry via Fredholm modules can be exploited in the context of fermionic Gaussian systems.
Inti Sodemann
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Applications of conformal field theory to the fractional quantum Hall states
The fractional quantum Hall states are one of the most amazing quantum
phases of matter. Among other mind bending features, they display quasiparticles with fractional charge and non-abelian braiding statistics. In this
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talk, I will revisit the use of conformal field theory machinery in the characterization of the ground state order and the edge and bulk quasiparticle
excitations with particular emphasis on paired FQHE states.
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Posters
Juli´
an Arcila Forero
´ , Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
[email protected]
Phase transition of anyons confined in one-dimensional optical lattice
Anyons are the third fundamental category of particles, for two anyons under particle exchange the wavefunction acquires a fractional phase eiθ , giving
rise to fractional statistics with 0 < θ < π. The greatest interest for the
anyons study emerged when the fractional quantum Hall effect observed
experimentally had natural explanation in term of anyons. We study a
Hubbard model for anyons equivalent to a variant of the Bose-Hubbard, we
established an exact mapping between anyons and bosons in one-dimension.
Using the density matrix renormalization group method we studied the system properties, we presented the phase diagram for density ρ = 1 with some
angles, the quantum transition is from Mott insulator to Superfluid phase,
the Mott lobe expands with increasing statistical angle.
We study the block von Neumann entropy, which was used to establish the
critical points. For a fixed density we study the critical point evolution vs
θ and find that the position of the critical point increasing with the angle.
For fixing statistical we showed the dependency between the position of the
critical point and the density, also the critical point decreases with increasing of the density, implying that the Mott region decreases.
Keywords. Anyons, phase transition, critical point, block von Neumann
entropy.
Joint with R. Franco and J. Silva-Valencia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot´
a, Colombia. .
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´
Oscar
Casas
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
´ , Colombia
Bogota
Topological Insulators in Nanowires
In this work we review the main characteristics of a topological insulator and
some applications in the study of nanowires. In particular, we summarize
some results obtained for the energy spectrum in nanowires of circular and
rectangular cross-section. In these systems the surface states show an energy
gap associated with the Berry phase. Finally, we discuss how to control
this gap using magnetic or exchange fields and the possible applications in
spintronics.
Joint with S. Gomez P., Universidad el Bosque, Bogot´a, Colombia and
William J. Herrera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot´a, Colombia.
.
Miguel Jorge Bernabe Ferreira
˜ o Paulo, Brasil
Universidade de Sa
Further Explorations of the Parameter Space of 3D Lattice
Gauge Theories
State sum models can be used to construct the partition functions of 3D
lattice gauge theories based on involutory Hopf algebras, A, of which the
group algebras, CG, are a particular case. Transfer matrices can be obtained
from such partition functions by carrying out the state sum construction on
a manifold with boundary. The parameter space of these transfer contains
various Hamiltonians of physical interest. The 2D quantum double Hamitlonians of Kitaev can be obtained from such transfer matrices for specific
values of these parameters. A initial study of such models has been carried out in our previous work. In this paper we study other regions of this
parameter space to obtain some new and known models. The new model
comprise of Hamiltonians which “partially” confine the excitations of the
quantum double Hamiltonians which are usually deconfined. The state sum
construction is not invariant by translations and thus it is natural to expect
to obtain disordered Hamiltonians from the transfer matrices resulting from
these constructions. Thus one set of known models consist of the disordered
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quantum double Hamiltonians. Finally we obtain quantum double Hamiltonians perturbed by magnetic fields which have been considered earlier in
the literature to study the stability of topological order to perturbations.
Mario Henao
Departamento de F´ısica, Universidad Del Valle
Cali, Colombia
[email protected]
Faraday rotation in thin metal films bounded by topological
insulators
Electromagnetic excitations arising in a metal slab surrounded by an insulator with a non trivial topology associated to time reversal symmetry
(topological insulator) are described in the frame of axion electrodynamics. It is shown that the rotation of the polarization plane induced by the
non trivial topology is a linear function of the topological term for all slab
thicknesses but strongly depends on the dispersion relations of bonding and
antibonding surface modes. Numerical calculations show that for the bonding surface modes the presence of the topological term leads to an increasing rotation angle, which becomes more pronounced for thin slabs. On the
other hand, the rotation angle of polarization corresponding to antibonding
surface modes decreases with the in-plane wave vector and its magnitude
is several orders of magnitude greater than that corresponding to bonding
modes.
Joint with Juan Carlos Granada, Departamento de F´ısica, Universidad Del
Valle, Cali, Colombia.
References
[1]
J.C. Granada E and D.F. Rojas. “Local excitations in thin metal films
bounded by topological insulators”. In: Physica B: Condensed Matter
455 (Dec. 2014), pp. 82–84. url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S0921452614005948.
[2]
M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, and M. Neupane. “Topological Insulators, Topological Crystalline Insulators, Topological Semimetals and Topological
Kondo Insulators”. In: (June 2014). arXiv: 1406 . 1040. url: http :
//arxiv.org/abs/1406.1040.
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[3]
A. Karch. “Surface plasmons and topological insulators”. In: Physical
Review B 83.24 (June 2011), p. 245432. url: http://link.aps.org/
doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.245432.
[4]
X.-L. Qi, T. L. Hughes, and S.-C. Zhang. “Topological field theory of
time-reversal invariant insulators”. In: Physical Review B 78.19 (Nov.
2008), p. 195424. url: http : / / link . aps . org / doi / 10 . 1103 /
PhysRevB.78.195424.
Paul Mar´ın
´ mica y Molecular, Instituto de F´ısica,
Grupo de F´ısica Ato
Universidad de Antioquia, Medell´ın, Colombia
Simulation of universal logic quantum gates by using a toric
code model
Currently a topic of high scientific interest is the quantum simulation of
many-body spin interactions. Toric code model is highlighted, in which the
spins are located at the edges of a square lattice on the surface of a torus. In
this paper the Hamiltonian of the system is initially identified. If the lattice
2
2
is of dimension k × k, the Hamiltonian is a matrix of dimension 22k × 22k .
The many-qubit time evolution operator of the system is then obtained.
Further to this, universal logic quantum gates are constructed. This work
may have relevance to establish a representation of anyons by using the toric
code model, which would simulate topological quantum gates.
Simulaci´
on de compuertas l´
ogicas cu´
anticas universales mediante
un modelo de c´
odigo t´
orico
En la actualidad un tema de alto inter´es cient´ıfico es la simulaci´on cu´antica
de interacciones de esp´ın de muchos cuerpos. Se destaca el modelo de c´odigo
t´
orico, en el cual los espines se ubican en los bordes de una red cuadrada
sobre la superficie de un toro. En este trabajo se identifica inicialmente el
hamiltoniano del sistema. Si la red es de dimensi´on k × k, el hamiltoniano
2
2
ser´
a una 2 × 2 matriz de dimensi´on 22k × 22k . Luego se obtiene el operador de evoluci´
on temporal del sistema de varios qubits. Ulterior a esto,
se construyen compuertas l´
ogicas cu´anticas universales. Este trabajo puede
tener importancia para establecer una representaci´on de anyones mediante
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el modelo de c´
odigo t´
orico, lo cual permitir´ıa simular compuertas cu´anticas
topol´
ogicas.
Joint with Jorge Mahecha, Universidad de Antioquia, Medell´ın.
Palabras Clave: Many-electron systems, Quantum computation, anyons.
References
[1]
E. Dennis, A. Kitaev, A. Landahl, and J. Preskill. “Topological quantum memory”. In: J. Math. Phys. 43.9 (2002), p. 4452. url: http :
//scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jmp/43/9/10.1063/
1.1499754.
[2]
D. Gottesman. “Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction”. Ph.D.
Thesis. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1997. url: http:
//arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9705052v1.
[3]
A.Yu. Kitaev. “Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons”. In:
Ann. Phys. 303.1 (2003), p. 2. url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S0003491602000180.
[4]
A.Yu. Kitaev. “Quantum computations: algorithms and error correction”. In: Russ. Math. Surv. 52.6 (1997), p. 1191. url: http://stacks.
iop.org/0036-0279/52/i=6/a=R02.
[5]
O. Viyuela, A. Rivas, and M.A. Martin-Delgado. “Generalized toric
codes coupled to thermal baths”. In: New J. Phys 14.3 (2012), p. 033044.
url: http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/14/i=3/a=033044.
[6]
H. Weimer. “Quantum simulation of many-body spin interactions with
ultracold polar molecules”. In: Mol. Phys. 111.12 (2013), p. 1753. eprint:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2013.789567. url: http:
//dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2013.789567.
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´
Oscar
Mart´ınez Castro
´ sicas, Universidad del Atla
´ ntico
Facultad de Ciencias Ba
Barranquilla, Colombia
Density of states of a graphene layer under circularly polarized ac field
In this work we study the density of states for a graphene monolayer in
presence of circularly polarized ac field. In the effective mass approximation, the presence of photon-dressed electron states within an energy gap
favors quantum oscillations in the density of states analogously to quantum
magnetic oscillations in presence of quantizing magnetic field. Basically the
difference lies in the nature of oscillations, which are driven by the field
frequency.
Joint with G. Salazar Cohen and R. Vega Monroy.
Carlos Mera Acosta
˜ o Paulo, Brazil
Instituto de F´ısica, Universidade de Sa
[email protected]
Dirac Fermions without bulk backscattering in rhombohedral
topological insulators
The realization of a spintronic device using topological insulators is not trivial, because there are inherent difficulties in achieving the surface transport
regime [1]. The majority of 3D topological insulators materials (3DTI) despite of support helical metallic surface states on an insulating bulk, forming
topological Dirac fermions protected by the time-reversal symmetry [2, 6],
exhibit electronic scattering channels due to the presence of residual continuous bulk states near the Dirac-point [3]. From ab initio calculations,
we studied the microscopic origin of the continuous bulk states in rhom5 (R¯
bohedral topological insulators materials with the space group D3d
3m),
showing that it is possible to understand the emergence of residual continuous bulk states near the Dirac-point into a six bands effective model, where
the breaking of the R3 symmetry beyond the Γ point has an important role
in the hybridization of the px, py and pz atomic orbitals, which leads to a
band repulsion that depends on only one parameter, as shown in Figure 1.
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Within this model, the mechanisms known to eliminate the bulk backscattering, for instance: the stacking faults [4], electric field [5] and alloy [7],
generated a similar effect in the effective states of the 3DTI. Finally, we
studied the surface electronic transport in the 3DTI with staking faults,
showing how the surface electronic transport is modified by perturbations
of bulk.
Figure 1: Projected surface band structure for 20 Qls calculated using the six
bands effective model varying the repulsion parameter. The color scale is related
to the contribution of the Qls in the surface. The blue and red colors indicate the
major and null contributions, respectively.
Joint with Antˆ
onio J. R. da Silva, Instituto de F´ısica, Universidade de S˜ao
Paulo y Laborat´
orio Nacional de Luz S´ıncrotron, Campinas, Brasil y A.
Fazzio, Laborat´
orio Nacional de Luz S´ıncrotron, Campinas, Brasil .
References
[1]
L. Barreto et al. “Surface-Dominated Transport on a Bulk Topological
Insulator”. In: Nano Letters 14 (7 June 2014), pp. 3755–3760. url:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl501489m.
[2]
B. A. Bernevig. Topological insulators and topological superconductors.
With Taylor L. Hughes. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2013, pp. xii+247.
[3]
S. Kim et al. “Surface Scattering via Bulk Continuum States in the 3D
Topological Insulator Bi2 Se3 ”. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (5 July 2011),
p. 056803. url: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.
107.056803.
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[4]
L. Seixas, L. B. Abdalla, T. M. Schmidt, A. Fazzio, and R. H. Miwa.
“Topological states ruled by stacking faults in Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3”. In:
Journal of Applied Physics 113.2, 023705 (2013), pages. url: http :
//scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/113/2/10.1063/
1.4773325.
[5]
O. V. Yazyev, J. E. Moore, and S. G. Louie. “Spin Polarization and
Transport of Surface States in the Topological Insulators Bi2 Se3 and
Bi2 Te3 from First Principles”. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (26 Dec. 2010),
p. 266806. url: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.
105.266806.
[6]
H. Zhang, C.-X. Liu, X.-L. Qi, X. Dai, Z. Fang, and S.-C. Zhang. “Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone
on the surface”. In: Nature Physics 5 (May 2009), p. 438. url: http:
//www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v5/n6/full/nphys1270.html.
[7]
J. Zhang et al. “Band structure engineering in (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 ternary
topological insulators”. In: Nature Communications 2.574 (2011), pages.
url: http : / / www . nature . com / ncomms / journal / v2 / n12 / abs /
ncomms1588.html.
Nicol´
as Morales Dur´
an, Andr´
es Vargas
´ ticas y F´ısica
Departamento de Matema
Universidad de los Andes
´ , Colombia
Bogota
A Bohmian approach to the non-Markovian non-linear
Schr¨
odinger-Langevin equation
The theory of open quantum systems is of fundamental importance to properly describe real systems, which do not exist in complete isolation. Among
the main approaches usually considered to incorporate environmental effects
in the dynamics of the system under study, non-linear Schr¨odinger equations
and system-plus-bath techniques are two of the most representative ones.
In this work, a non-Markovian generalized Schr¨odinger-Langevin equation
is derived from the system-plus-bath approach [2]. Specifically Bohmian
mechanics is shown to be of great importance in order to obtain a compact
expression for the damping potential, which reduces to the well known situations reported in the literature, where Markovian and/or non-linear effects
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are considered. Finally, an application regarding the generalized uncertainty
principle (GUP) as a quantum gravitational principle is presented [1].
Joint with Pedro Bargue˜
no, Universidad de los Andes, Bogot´a, Colombia.
References
[1]
P. Bargue˜
no. “Generalized uncertainty principle and quantum gravitational friction”. In: Physics Letters B 727.4-5 (2013), pp. 496–499.
url: http : / / www . sciencedirect . com / science / article / pii /
S0370269313009088.
[2]
A. F. Vargas, N. Morales-Dur´an, and P. Bargue˜
no. “A Bohmian approach to the non-Markovian non-linear Schr¨odinger-Langevin equation”. In: Annals of Physics 356 (2015), pp. 498–504. url: http://www.
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491615001220.
Manuel Mu˜
noz
Departamento de F´ısica, Universidad Del Valle
Cali, Colombia
[email protected]
Edge modes in the single-band Bose-Hubbard model.
Topological phases of matter are nowadays an active field of study and there
is special interest in to look for their realization since there exists the possibility of topological superconductivity followed by the promise of a fault
free quantum computer. On the other hand, ultra cold atoms have proven
to be excellent quantum simulators to mimic the previously mentioned complex condensed matter systems. Therefore, in the present work, we use an
already tested simulation of an Ising spin chain by taking advantage of the
dipole transitions of the Mott-insulator state when the spins are in presence
of a strong electric field. Furthermore, by means of a Jordan-Wigner transformation, the system is fermionized, and finally the unitary transformations
introduced by Kitaev are used. The main result is that for a proper set of
parameters the initial single-band Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian can sustain
unpaired zero-energy edge-modes.
Joint with Karen Rodriguez and Javier Madro˜
nero, Departamento de F´ısica,
Universidad Del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
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I. Bloch, J. Dalibard, and S. Nascimb`ene. “Quantum simulations with
ultracold quantum gases”. In: Nature Physics 8.4 (Apr. 2012), pp. 267–
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[2]
A. Y. Kitaev. “Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires.” In:
Physics-Uspekhi 44.131 (2001).
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X. Li, E. Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu. “Topological states in a ladder-like
optical lattice containing ultracold atoms in higher orbital bands.” In:
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org/10.1038/ncomms2523.
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electric fields”. In: Physical Review B 66.7 (Aug. 2002), p. 075128. url:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.075128.
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J. Simon, W. S. Bakr, R. Ma, M. E. Tai, P. M. Preiss, and M. Greiner.
“Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical
lattice.” In: Nature 472.7343 (Apr. 2011), pp. 307–12. url: http://
dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09994.
[6]
S.-L. Zhu, Z.-D. Wang, Y.-H. Chan, and L.-M. Duan. “Topological
Bose-Mott Insulators in a One-Dimensional Optical Superlattice”. In:
Physical Review Letters 110.7 (Feb. 2013), p. 075303. url: http://
link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.075303.
Mariela Nieto
Departamento de F´ısica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
[email protected], [email protected]
Effective Model for Graphene
We employ a simple nonrelativistic model, based on a deformation of the
Heisenberg algebra which makes the commutator of momenta proportional
to the pseudo-spin, to describe the low energy excitation of graphene.
This model (which reduces in a ceratin limit to the usual linear one employed to describe these excitations as massless Dirac fermions) reproduces
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the leading (isotropic) terms in the low energy expansion of the dispersion
relation derived from the tight binding model for both nearest and next-tonearest-neighbor interactions.
We solve the Landau problem for the resulting Hamiltonian and, taking
into account the contribution of both Dirac points, we evaluated the Hall
conductivity within a ζ-function approach, showing that it is consisten with
the anomalous integer quantum Hall effect characteristic of graphene.
Palabras Clave: Graphene, Hall conductivity, ζ-function.
Joint with H. Falomir, IFLP - CONICET and Departamento de F´ısica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata,
Argentina,
J. Gamboa, Facultad de F´ısica, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile,
and Departamento de F´ısica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago,
Chile,
M. Loewe, Departamento de F´ısica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile and Centre for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, University
of Cape Town, South Africa. .
Jos´
e Luis Ribero
Universidad de Antioquia
Medell´ın, Colombia
Ramsey interferometer and measurements of quantum topological phases
Ramsey’s method of successive oscillatory fields is an accuracy procedure
to perform molecular and atom beam resonance experiments. There exist a
lot of advantages provided by this method. Between them, measurement of
relative phases is the commonly used, this because the required information
is available in the transition probability of the interferometer.
Here we describe the Aharonov-Casher effect. Also we do a description of the
Ramsey’s interferometer and how it is used to measure topological phases.
After that, we will describe how this interferometer is used to measure the
phase acquired by the Aharonov-Casher effect in an atomic beam experiment.
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Karen Valencia
´ ntico
Universidad del Atla
Baranquilla, Colombia
Medidas de impedancia del Dy2 F e17−x Gax cerca de la transici´
on de fase Ferromagn´
etica-Paramagn´
etica
Estudio de las propiedades de transporte el´ectrico de los compuestos intermet´
alicos con composici´
on Dy2 F e17−x Gax (x = 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7) en el rango
cercano a la temperatura de transici´on (Tc) de cada uno de estos compuestos.
Para ello, se llev´
o a cabo medidas de impedancia como funci´on de la temperatura, en un rango de frecuencia comprendido entre 1 Hz a 1 MHz utilizando
la t´ecnica de espectroscopia de impedancia. Adem´as se realizaron medidas
de difracci´
on de rayos X (DRX) a temperatura ambiente, como m´etodo de
caracterizaci´
on estructural, el cual permiti´o conocer los par´ametros de red
del compuesto y confirmar la formaci´on de una sola fase principal. Las
estructuras cristalinas se refinaron a partir de sus patrones de difracci´on
empleando el m´etodo de Rietveld, revelando que la sustituci´on de Ga en
la serie ocasiona un aumento en los par´ametros de red y un cambio en su
estructura de la fase hexagonal tipo T h2 N i17 a la fase rombo´edrica tipo
T h2 Zn17 .
Transport properties of the intermetallic compounds with Dy2 F e17−x Gax
composition (x = 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7) near to the transition temperature (Tc) were
studied for each compounds. For this purpose, impedance measurements
as a function of temperature was carried out in the range of 1 Hz to 1
MHz using impedance spectroscopy technique. Moreover, X-ray diffraction
(XRD) measuremetns conducted at room temperature, allowed to know the
lattice parameters for all compounds and from these results single main
phase is confirmed. The crystal structures were refined from diffraction
patterns using the Rietveld method, an then showed that Ga substitution in
the series increase lattice parameters and produce a change in the structure
from hexagonal type T h2 N i17 to rhombohedral phase type T h2 Zn17 .
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Monday, May 25th (Room: B-202)
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 9:15
Opening
9:15 – 10:15
Jiannis Pachos: Why should anyone care about anyons? I
10:15 – 11:15
Allan Macdonald: Quantum Hall effects through the ages I
11:15 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:45
Andrei Bernevig: Topological Superconductors and Category
Theory I
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
–
Afternoon session in Room O-101
14:00 – 15:00
Problem Session
15:00 – 15:30
Break
15:30 – 16:10
Inti Sodemann: Applications of conformal field theory to the
fractional quantum Hall states
16:10 – 16:50
Servio P´erez: Quantum physics and transport process in 2D
nanostructures by means of special functions
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Tuesday, May 26th (Room: B-202)
9:00 – 10:00
Jiannis Pachos: Why should anyone care about anyons? II
10:00 – 11:00
Allan Macdonald: Quantum Hall effects through the ages II
11:00 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:30
Andrei Bernevig: Topological Superconductors and Category Theory II
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40
C´esar Galindo: Classification of Modular Categories
14:40 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
Break
Problem Session
16:00 – 16:30
16:30 –
Break
Poster Session & refreshments
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Wednesday, May 27th (Room: O-101)
9:00 – 10:00
Jiannis Pachos: Why should anyone care about anyons? III
10:00 – 11:00
Allan Macdonald: Quantum Hall effects through the ages III
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
Break
Andrei Bernevig: Topological Superconductors and Category Theory III
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Thursday, May 28th (Room: B-202)
9:00 – 10:00
Jiannis Pachos: Why should anyone care about anyons? IV
10:00 – 11:00
Allan Macdonald: Quantum Hall effects through the ages IV
11:00 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:30
Andrei Bernevig: Topological Superconductors and Category Theory IV
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40
Arturo G´
omez: Confinement and Deconfinement regimes in 3D
gauge systems a la Gribov
14:40 – 15:20
Andr´es Reyes: The Geometry of Quantum Phase Transitions:
From Berry Phases to Fredholm Modules
15:20 – 15:50
15:50 – 16:50
Break
Problem Session
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Friday, May 29th (Room: O-101)
9:00 – 10:00
Jiannis Pachos: Why should anyone care about anyons? V
10:00 – 11:00
Allan Macdonald: Quantum Hall effects through the ages V
11:00 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:30
Andrei Bernevig: Topological Superconductors and Category Theory V
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
–
Afternoon session in Room B-202
14:00 – 15:00
Problem Session
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 –
Break
Aiyalam Balachandran: Edge States, topological insulators and
superconductors
Entrega de certificados de asistencia
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Break
14:00 – 14:40
C. Galindo
14:40-15:00
Break
15:00 – 16:00
Problem Session
16:00 – 16:30
Break
Break
A. Bernevig
Break
14:00 – 15:00
Problem Session
15:00 – 15:30
Break
15:30-16:10
I. Sodemann
16:10-16:50
S. P´erez
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
16:30
Poster Session
A. Bernevig
Break
A. Macdonald
A. Macdonald
10:00 – 11:00
J. Pachos
J. Pachos
Registration
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:00
8:00 – 9:00
Monday
A. Bernevig
Break
A. Macdonald
J. Pachos
Wednesday
15:20 – 15:50
Problem Session
15:20 – 15:50
Break
14:40-15:20
A. Reyes
14:00 – 14:40
A. G´omez
Break
A. Bernevig
Break
A. Macdonald
J. Pachos
Thursday
15:30-16:30
A. Balachandran
15:00 – 15:30
Break
14:00 – 15:00
Problem Session
Break
A. Bernevig
Break
A. Macdonald
J. Pachos
Friday